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Title: computer question for the it people on here
Post by: beast5680 on August 16, 2008, 18:58:40

can i link my laptop to my home pc so it can use the printer easily neither are wireless so it would be a cable link,like a network thing i think
please explain in laymans terms diagrams would be good also :D

Title: Re: computer question for the it people on here
Post by: waveydavey on August 16, 2008, 20:10:25

Do you have a home network at all? If not it might be Worth looking at anyway.

Title: Re: computer question for the it people on here
Post by: beast5680 on August 16, 2008, 20:42:36

no network of any sort :-.

Title: Re: computer question for the it people on here
Post by: baz2236 on August 16, 2008, 21:04:27

If both PC's have a network card in you can get whats called a cross over cable this will allow the 2 computer to talk to one another and you can set up a network, Once the network is configured you can share your printer across it.

Title: Re: computer question for the it people on here
Post by: waveydavey on August 17, 2008, 10:49:25

More or less what I was thinking but if you already have a router for broadband most of them operate as network switches as well.

I guess that the home PC is hardwired tot eh router and the laptop by WiFi?
If so you should be able to set them up as a home network so you can access each others hardware - such as hard drives and Printers.

Title: Re: computer question for the it people on here
Post by: MICK on August 17, 2008, 17:20:13

Can you not just instal the printer drivers on to your laptop then just connect your laptop to printer when you need to.

Title: Re: computer question for the it people on here
Post by: beast5680 on August 17, 2008, 18:53:37

Quote from: MICK on August 17, 2008, 17:20:13

Can you not just instal the printer drivers on to your laptop then just connect your laptop to printer when you need to.

i could do that but when you see where my pc is you,ll realise what a fag it is to pull the wire out :lol:
i made a trip to pc world today, its like halfords for pooters with the same level of staff knowledge :roll: :lol: spotty yoof tried telling me i needed this that and the other which i doubted :-. so i wandered off and found a manager who took me straight to a router which will connect to my system no probs so i got that and now the laptop can print, much brownie points for me from swmbo :dance: and cos it has a wireless bit she can use it to do her email and stuff while i do important stuff like go on here :grin:

Title: Re: computer question for the it people on here
Post by: waveydavey on August 17, 2008, 19:34:30

Well done that man - good feeling when it works isn't it?

I think actually PC world are worse than Halford's if that's possible.

If they are all connected the next thing is to network so you can save things from the laptop to the home PC - desktops are much easier to expand by putting larger hard drives in, keep stuff off your laptop hard drive and it will run faster.

Title: Re: computer question for the it people on here
Post by: hobbit on August 17, 2008, 20:45:58

Not looked at this for quite a while, but there used to be a usb system, I think it was called laplink, but its going back a few years since I had one though